Publications of Engseng Ho    :chronological  alphabetical  combined listing:

%% Articles & Book Chapters   
@article{fds329906,
   Author = {Ho, E},
   Title = {Custom and conversion in malabar: Zayn al-din al-malibari's
             gift of the mujahidin: Some accounts of the
             Portuguese},
   Pages = {403-408},
   Booktitle = {Islam in South Asia in Practice},
   Year = {2009},
   Month = {September},
   ISBN = {9780691044200},
   Key = {fds329906}
}


%% Papers Published   
@article{fds340658,
   Author = {Ho, E},
   Title = {Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies},
   Journal = {Journal of Asian Studies},
   Volume = {76},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {907-928},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
   Year = {2017},
   Month = {November},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021911817000900},
   Abstract = {This essay proposes that the study of Asia, thought of as an
             Inter-Asian space, can provide concepts that shed light on
             the social shapes of societies that are mobile, spatially
             expansive, and interactive with one other. Inter-Asia, an
             old world crisscrossed by interactions between parts that
             have known and recognized one another for centuries,
             provides an unmatched depth and breadth of mobile experience
             and material. Such material can be recognized if seen
             through concepts designed to bring out the shapes of mobile
             societies, and to analyze their dynamics. These concepts
             include mobility, disaggregation-reaggregation, connection,
             circulation, partial societies, transregional
             axis/intermediate scale, and outside-in analysis. They are
             offered in the spirit of philosophical housekeeping, to
             clarify and crystalize what is innovative about recent Asian
             studies that move beyond globalization, and to further those
             efforts. They are ways out of the box of classical social
             theory's internalist, constitutionalist paradigms that
             hamper the Inter-Asia venture.},
   Doi = {10.1017/S0021911817000900},
   Key = {fds340658}
}

@article{fds329902,
   Author = {Ho, E},
   Title = {Afterword: Mobile law and thick transregionalism},
   Journal = {Law and History Review},
   Volume = {32},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {883-889},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
   Year = {2014},
   Month = {September},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0738248014000480},
   Abstract = {The articles in this special issue of Law and History Review
             advance Indian Ocean studies and legal history by employing
             innovative mobile methods and concepts. In the past few
             decades, the Indian Ocean has become established as a frame
             for research and an object of study in its own right.
             Inspired by Braudel's work on the Mediterranean, and alert
             to geography, pioneering economic and political historians
             established the ocean's worth as a field of research. More
             recently, understanding of the ocean and its histories and
             societies has been broadened to include fields such as
             religion, diaspora, cultural history, literature, and the
             environment.},
   Doi = {10.1017/S0738248014000480},
   Key = {fds329902}
}

@article{fds329903,
   Author = {Ho, E},
   Title = {Black-Gold Rescues US Dollar Hegemony},
   Journal = {Current Anthropology},
   Volume = {55},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {145-146},
   Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
   Year = {2014},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/675498},
   Doi = {10.1086/675498},
   Key = {fds329903}
}

@article{fds329904,
   Author = {Ho, E},
   Title = {The china-africa axis in relation to other regional
             axes},
   Journal = {Middle East Report},
   Volume = {44},
   Number = {270},
   Pages = {14-17},
   Year = {2014},
   Month = {January},
   Abstract = {China and Africa grosso modo are often seen as standing at
             two ends of the spectrum of developing countries, the former
             having acquired enormous industrial capacity in short order,
             and the latter not. In the nineteenth century Africa
             presented few states strong enough to resist the Western
             states with their newly organized nations, industrial
             economies and militaries. There were hardly any African
             states capable of imposing terms or even playing European
             powers off each other. As a consequence, Europeans were able
             to gang up, or agree to disagree, in carving the continent
             up in the 'scramble for Africa' without stepping on each
             other's toes. Strangely enough, the NATO victory in oil-rich
             Libya has renewed fears of Western colonial ambitions in
             Africa. In the Libyan adventure, European leaders exhibited
             a startling enthusiasm for waging war for economic
             capture.},
   Key = {fds329904}
}

@article{fds329905,
   Author = {Ho, E},
   Title = {FOREIGNERS AND MEDIATORS IN THE CONSTITUTION OF MALAY
             SOVEREIGNTY},
   Journal = {Indonesia and the Malay World},
   Volume = {41},
   Number = {120},
   Pages = {146-167},
   Publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
   Year = {2013},
   Month = {July},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2013.790179},
   Abstract = {Through reading the Sejarah Melayu, this article suggests
             that foreigners are fundamental to the constitution of Malay
             sovereignty. Malay polities, located at the crossroads of
             international trade, thrived on commerce with foreign
             merchants. Power and wealth necessarily engage the foreign,
             as does destruction. The Sejarah Melayu pays attention to
             how foreign powers are identified, tested and incorporated,
             in a compact that constitutes Malay sovereignty and polity.
             This process, in which a universal kingly line transforms
             into Malay sovereign, creates a language that enunciates the
             terms of alliance between local and foreign. A single
             process both incorporates the foreign and establishes the
             ritual language of Malay sovereignty. Malay sovereignty thus
             constituted takes diarchical forms in texts and in history.
             The Sejarah Melayu model of diarchic sovereignty is
             contrasted with the political constitution of contemporary
             Malaysia derived from colonial India, in which a singular,
             exclusive, autochthonous, native Malay culture claims
             sovereign rule. © 2013 Copyright Editors, Indonesia and the
             Malay World.},
   Doi = {10.1080/13639811.2013.790179},
   Key = {fds329905}
}